WINEMAKING TECHNICAL SPOTLIGHT
68 WINES&VINES October 2016
Four Daughters Vineyard & Winery
78757 State Highway 16, Spring Valley, Minn. 55975 • (507) 346-7300 • fourdaughtersvineyard.com
The Technical Spotlight is a regular feature highlighting wineries in North America that have recently
opened or undergone major renovations and improvements. Wines & Vines seeks to report how
facility design and winemaking equipment is used to achieve a particular winemaking style while also
exploring new trends and techniques being used in the industry. If you think your winery would be a
good candidate for the feature, contact us at edit@winesandvines.com.
FOUNDERS
Vicky and Gary Vogt
WINEMAKER
Justin Osborne
VINEYARD MANAGER
Patrick Sween
MARKETING
Kristin Osborne
YEAR BONDED
2010
WINERY AVA
Upper Mississippi
River Valley
DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER
SALES:
75%
VINEYARD ACREAGE
6
Source: Wines Vines Analytics Source: Wines Vines Analytics
WINERY CASE PRODUCTION WINERY AVERAGE BOTTLE PRICE
0 10 20 30 40 50
Thousands
Four Daughters Vineyard & Winery
Fillmore County Average
Minnesota Average
U.S. Average
47,000
$23
Four Daughters Vineyard & Winery
Fillmore County Average
Minnesota Average
U.S. Average
$0 $5 $10 $15 $20 $25
$12
$18
BUILDING THE WINERY AND CIDERY
Architect John W. Kirk Design (Minneapolis), johnwkirk.com
General contractor SK Builders, sk-builders.com (for cidery build)
Interior design,
landscaping
Megan Gruhner, John Kirk and Vicky Vogt
(for winery build)
Glycol, tank
heating/chilling
Cold Shot Chillers, waterchillers.com
MAKING THE WINE
Crusher/destemmer Precisa 50, GW Kent, gwkent.com
Tanks Winery:
Three closed-top tanks by Letina Tanks,
St. Patrick's of Texas, stpats.com
Three variable-capacity tanks by Letina Tanks,
GW Kent, gwkent.com
Two SK red fermentors, Prospero Equipment Corp.,
prosperoequipment.com
Cidery:
Seven 5,800-gallon tanks, Badger Fabrications
(Sauk City, Wis.), badgerfabrication.com
Four 4,000-gallon square closed-top tanks
by Letina Tanks, GW Kent
Pumpover devices Sprinkler, GW Kent
Pumps 3.5-inch flexible impeller, US-FIP,
americanwinepump.com
Waukesha washdown pump, Carlsen Associates,
carlsenassociates.com
Forklift Raymond Corp., raymondcorp.com
Presses SK 28 hl pneumatic membrane,
Prospero Equipment Corp.
Barrels French barrels from reWine (Salem, Ore.),
rewinebarrels.com
Barrel racks Western Square, westernsquare.com
Barrel washer Spray-ball, GW Kent
Tank washer Tankjet, tankjet.com
Flash pasteurizer IDD Process and Packaging, iddeas.com
Steam 25-ton boiler, Columbia Boiler Co., columbiaboiler.com
Nutrients Fermaid K and DAP, Scott Labs, scottlab.com
4,800
No Data Available
No Data Available
$23
Yeast Wine: Laffort, laffort.com/en
Cider: Champagne yeast, Scott Labs
Cellar equipment GW Kent
Filter Cross-flow filter, Della Toffola USA, dellatoffola.us
RUNNING THE BUSINESS
POS software,
hardware
PixelPoint, pixelpointpos.com
Compliance Vintrace, vinx2.com
PACKAGING
Bottling line GAI 1000 (1,200 bottles per hour),
Prospero Equipment Corp.
Canning line Palmer 24/4 monobloc (200 cans per minute),
Palmer Canning Systems, palmercanning.com
Bottles and
capsules
Kaufman Container, kaufmancontainer.com
Corks Amorim Cork America, amorimca.com
Label printing Trysk Label Solutions, tryskprintsolutions.com
